Sale 2683 - Lot 236
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Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Ulysses, First English Edition.
London: The Egoist Press, 1922.
First English edition, quarto, number 1,598 of 2,000 copies printed (500 were seized and burned by the U.S. government upon arrival); with half-title and 8 pages of errata at end; bound in quarter calf over morocco-covered boards, gilt ruled, spine with a black cartouche gilt-stamped with author and title, floral endpapers, top edge tinted black; with original blue wrapper bound in (scattered light spotting; rubbed, extremities scuffed); 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.
"I hold this book to be the most important expression which the present age has found; it is a book to which we are all indebted, and from which none of us can escape." - T.S. Eliot.
